Dr Christina Bieber Lake is an American author. Now retired, she was the Clyde S. Kilby professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where she taught classes in contemporary American literature and literary theory. Her books include Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood (University of Notre Dame Press), a book that draws upon theological resources as it investigates, through fiction, the motivations for human enhancement. Prophets of the Posthuman won the 2014 Aldersgate prize for integrative Christian scholarship. She followed this up with the brilliant Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. Dr Bieber Lake frequently contributes essays on fiction, ethics, and film to Books & Culture, Comment Magazine, and The Cresset, as well as scholarly journals. You can read some of her articles here: Christina Bieber Lake - Comment MagazineShe is a frequent contributor to scholarly work on Flannery O'Connor, and her book The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor (Mercer University Press), describes how O’Connor viewed fiction as an ideal way to fight Gnostic dualisms prevalent in American intellectual and religious life. Her work on teaching as a vocation includes The Flourishing Teacher. Learn more at her website, here:https://christinabieberlake.com/

I'm delighted to be joined in this episode by my friends, Jonathan Pageau and Jason M. Baxter.

Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and YouTuber exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, how these patterns emerge and come together, manifesting in religion, art and in popular culture. He's also the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal and host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast.

Please see:

https://kepler.education/t/george.harrell/?full_description=true

https://www.tgbf.org/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-george-buchanan-forum/id1557574254

Doug is a pastor, spiritual director, pilgrimage leader, a certified enneagram trainer, and has a doctorate in Male Spirituality. Doug’s sweet spot is resourcing pastors, leaders, and individuals in their spiritual journey. Check out their website, here: https://www.calhounministries.org/

This is the second story in my new series of short stories and is a traditional Irish tale. My wife and I recently completed our storytelling course with Storytellers of Ireland, so I decided to take what I have learned and apply those lessons here.

Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is an American philosopher. She is the Emerita George Lynn Cross Research Professor, as well as Emerita Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma. She writes in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of religion, and virtue theory.

Please check out Linda's books, talks, and papers. It's well worth the effort:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Linda-Zagzebski/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ALinda+Zagzebski

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UVXHhZGZRRopfoevC95Lg

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qaLOflbdSE54DnurmVs03

https://philpapers.org/rec/ZAGWIK

Connie Marshner is the author of the book Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity. She holds a Master’s degree in Gaelic Literature from University College Cork.

For more and to buy the book, see her website here: